Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright

librarian

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1862

Date of Death: 07-Mar-1940

Profession: librarian, translator

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Sir Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright, LL.D.
(17 November 1862, Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire – 7 March 1940 in London) was the Secretary and Librarian of the London Library from 1893 until his death.
He managed expansion of the library and compiled a comprehensive catalogue of its collection.
The Times called him "the guiding genius" of the library, the driving force behind the four decades of its growth.
The Library itself hails Wright as "the real architect of the London Library as it is today".Wright was a highly public person and frequently engaged in political debates.
His scholarly interests ranged from the history of the colonization of Africa to translation of Leo Tolstoy.
He had a reputation of a liberal russophile and was involved in Russian radical politics and wartime humanitarian aid to Russian soldiers and academics.